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(MEXICO—1787.)
A short abridgement fo [sic] Christian doctrine.
41
pages. Small 8vo, contemporary plain wrappers; minor dampstaining on bottom edge, edges
tinted red.
[Mexico, 1787]
[4,000/6,000]
Very likely the first work printed in English west of the Mississippi River, and the only
Mexican book printed in English under Spanish rule.The date appears in the note from the
Inquisition on the first page. Settlers in Spanish America were required to practice Catholicism.
This Catholic catechism was intended to help the growing numbers of English-speaking settlers
inWest Florida, New Orleans andTexas to keep their promise. Medina, México 7705.
406
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(MEXICO—1788.)
Group of 3 incomplete “Calendario manual y guia de
forasteros de Mexico” for 1789, 1799, and 1807.
12mo, the two earliest in modern
wrappers, the 1807 edition in contemporary calf; all lacking maps, 1789 lacks final leaf,
1799 lacks frontispiece and has worming, 1807 has frontispiece.
México: Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1788-1806
[300/400]
407
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(MEXICO—1787.) Paloú, Francisco.
Relacion historica de la vida y
apostolicas tareas del venerable Padre FrayJunipero Serra, y de las misiones que
fundó en la California Septentrional.
[28], 344 pages. 4to, contemporary vellum,
minor wear; lacking folding map and portrait plate (facsimiles laid in), otherwise just mini-
mal foxing.
México: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1787
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
issue with corrected “PRO-” catchword at end of index. “Perhaps the best
known of all works relating to California”—Wagner, Spanish Southwest 168. Cowan 1933,
page 171; Hill 1289; Howes P56 (“c”); Medina, México 7731; Palau 210789; Zamarano
Eighty 59.
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